Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Game store accused of opening collectible card games and resealing them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPTC-gJT1eM&feature=youtu.be A Magic:The Gathering pre-release kit [Amazon] is about $25 and contains five booster decks. What would you think if you bought 14 such kits from your local game store, received not one good card, then bought another kit at a grocery store and spotted that it was shrinkwrapped differently? To YouTube with the evidence!
"It feels a little off"
The "fake" box has lower-quality cellophane but a higher-quality seal: perhaps what you'd expect from a consumer appliance designed for preserving food. The cards themselves are held inside plastic foil booster packs which should openly as cleanly as a bag of peanuts. With the suspect decks, though, the art and wrapping material delaminate as they're opened, and leave visible superglue residue. Oh my! The store at hand is left unnamed, but the serial numbers of the decks are posted, so the manufacturer, Wizards of the Coast, will be able to figure it out. Note that there's always the possibility that the store is being framed and it would be very easy to do so. I figure at $25 for a deck and a couple of dice, the printers could do some basic security measures like using watermarked shrinkwrap, air-sensitive paint dabs and what-have-you.